Asia

• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops to the government: "To support a secular India and respectful of the rights" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – It is important to support the secularism of the Indian nation and together build a nation in which the rights and freedoms of every person are respected: is what the Bishops write to the In ...
• 30 January 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish Court orders the return of land to a Christian Foundation Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Istanbul Administrative Court ordered the restitution of property rights of a large plot of land to the sira Kadim Meryemana Foundation, linked to the Syrian Orthodox Church, land which had bee ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/TAIWAN - X Congress of the Word of God in Chinese Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "Witnessing the Word of God, a new Evangelization - Pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved (Mt 9:17)": was the theme of the X world Congress of the Word of God in Chinese, he ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Legal battle for the custody of the children of the Christian couple burned alive Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Five different applications have been lodged at the Court of Lahore demanding custody of the three children of Shama and Shahzad Masih, the Christian couple accused of blasphemy and burned alive ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "Remove a cross in the state of Chin": the order worries Christians Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Burmese state of Chin (in western Myanmar) has ordered the removal, by 30 January, of a 16-meter-high cross, located on a hill in the city of Hakha. As Fides learns, the ordi ...
• 29 January 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - US Senators: The United States have to encourage the creation of a province for Christians in the Nineveh Plain Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of suffering experienced by Christians and other minorities forced to flee from Nineveh Plain raises "serious concern", to the point of asking the US State Department to "suppor ...
• 28 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Taseer murder, justice to the test Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The High Court in Islamabad held its first hearing yesterday, January 27, in the appeal of Mumtaz Qadri, self-confessed killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, which occurred on 4th January 2 ...
• 28 January 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Patriarchs of Antioch: in order to stop the conflict, arms trafficking must be stopped Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The wars that devastate the Middle East, starting from Syria and Iraq will end only when the flow of arms and money destined to armed factions and terrorist groups by allies and sponsors regiona ...
• 28 January 2015
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith: for peace and religious harmony, the government "is on the right path" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The new government of President Mahinda Sirisena has undertaken the important task of ensuring the rule of law in the country and promote peace and harmony among different communities": this is ...
• 27 January 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY – Other three people accused of the massacre of Christians in Malatya have been released from prison Malatya (Agenzia Fides) - The first Criminal Court in Malatya has ordered the release of two former soldiers and a university researcher held for almost four years on suspicion of being involved in the murder of three Ch ...
• 27 January 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: No to violence in Mindanao, support for the peace process Dagupan City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of the Philippines expressed its peremptory "no" to all forms of violence against human life, and publicly declared support for the peace process and the ongoing neg ...
• 27 January 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Church set on fire in the state of Telangana New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The new state of Telangana, officially created in the Indian Federation a few months ago, received the "baptism" of violence by Hindu extremists: the Protestant church of the village of Tadur ...
• 26 January 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New church dedicated to Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, in an area where poor families live Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in Pakistan rejoices for the consecration of a new church dedicated to Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross in Pansara, in the diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab Pakistan. ...
• 26 January 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians: "Obama speak with Narendra Modi about religious minorities" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - President Obama should address the issue of religious minorities in India during the talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi: is what Indian Christians ask for during US President Barac ...
• 23 January 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Year of Consecrated Life: the Dominican Family welcomes new laity Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Dominican Family in Indonesia - composed of religious men, nuns and laity - welcomes new laity: a sign of hope in the Year of Consecrated Life, in which all religious families are called to ...